DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas family who discovered their old Norman Rockwell work of baseball umpires was an authentic painting sold the work at auction for $1.6 million, Heritage Auctions said on Monday. The painting, an original study for the work called "Tough Call," shows three umpires pondering whether to halt a game as raindrops begin to fall. It became one of the best-known Rockwell illustrations after being published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1949. Rockwell gave a signed copy to John "Beans" Reardon, a baseball umpire featured prominently in the work. Sandra Sprinkle, Reardon's granddaughter, later inherited the piece and put it above the mantle of her Dallas home for about a decade, it said. After her death in 2015, her husband Gene Sprinkle sold the couple's home and moved to a retirement community, where his nephew took a look at the piece and noticed brush strokes. "We always thought it was a print, but we hung it over our fireplace because it was signed by Norman Rockwell to Beans Reardon," Gene Sprinkle told Reuters by telephone on Monday. Sprinkle, a 74-year-old retiree, said he agreed to let his nephew contact Dallas-based Heritage, which determined it was an original oil, painted as a study for the final version. The buyer has asked to remain anonymous, according to Heritage officials. "Sandra and her grandfather were very close," Sprinkle said. "Whenever people came to our house to visit, she was always proud to show it off and tell them about her grandfather."
A teenager who attends Beaumont High School in Southern California discovered that her choice of undergarments was actually subject to her teacher’s approval.
“BHS is so out of line,” Remy Altuna wrote on Twitter last Wednesday. “Now they want to dress code you for not wearing a bra. My underwear is none of there (sic) business.”
“She said that my shirt was low cut; then she asked if I was wearing a bra,” Altuna says. “She went on to say that because I wasn’t wearing a bra, she didn’t want people to think anything bad of me or talk inappropriately or have anything bad to say.”
Yahoo Style has reached out to BHS for comment and will update if we hear back.
The Beaumont High School dress code does not specify anything about bras, but says this about shirts: “Tops must cover all parts of undergarments and shall not be low cut or revealing.” Altuna said she didn’t feel she needed a bra with her top, and if she’d worn one, she would have been dress-coded because it would have shown. While she does not think her outfit was inappropriate, she said what happened to her is part of a pattern.
“This year it just seems like they’re really out for blood, looking for anything,” Altuna says. It would be one thing if they were dress coding boys and girls equally, but she notes that girls have been the biggest targets, while the boys’ violations, such as ripped jeans, are overlooked.
Another student at Altuna’s school also took to Twitter to complain that girls were being disciplined for their outfits while boys who made sexual comments about them were not.
“So today security heard a guy comment something sexual bc of my leggings & then tried to dress code me for it instead of talking to the him?” Larissa M wrote. “My leggings weren’t sheer whatsoever. If our security can’t stand up to sexual harassment, they don’t need to work at BHS.”
Altuna said the vice principal told her: “I don’t want people to see you and assume bad things about you. I’m trying to protect you.”
A friend responded on Twitter, “What ‘bad things’ would someone assume? Like oh damn look at that girl being comfy and s***.”
What "bad things" would someone assume? Like oh damn look at that girl being comfy and shit twitter.com/rxmybxtch/stat…
“If my vice principal was so concerned about bullying and people saying bad things about me … then she should focus on the students who are behaving inappropriately,” Altuna told Yahoo. “We as women shouldn’t be put down because of our bodies.”
The notion that wearing a bra or covering up the body is necessary for a girl’s protection is a faulty one, setting society up to blame the victims of sexual assault, according to experts.
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